Chapter Seventy-Three: Time Stopwatch?
The 4 giants of the Argentine league are actually not as famous as Sarsfield in China, although Sarsfield has also won 10 Argentine League championships and 7 runners-up, but the background is indeed inferior to Boca, River Plate, Athletic These teams, the only reason is that the bald South American tiger who does not even give face to the president of his own country - Chilavert. Lao Qi scored 62 direct free kicks in his entire career as a goalkeeper, and this goalkeeper can also be called a one-man goalkeeper, and even the alien Ronaldo was stunned when he saw him. Chilavert's 1-on-1 saves aren't top-notch, but his judgment of the ball can be said to be accurate in goalkeeper miles, and regular athletic battles are hardly a threat to the door behind him. Everyone is a goalkeeper who is afraid of the striker, but if you are just a mediocre striker who plays forward in name, then I advise you not to try to challenge Chilavert, 02 World Cup Paraguay against Germany, look at Werder Bremen's two seasons to score as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, and Neuville, when shooting in the penalty area, you can clearly feel that it is the striker who is panicked, Chilavert is called a light breeze! And Sarsfield doesn't have any big-name players, at least at this stage, Chilavert can open a rank than the second oldest player in the team, which is also a team that plays as a whole, with a concise and efficient style of play.
Guangzhou Suns, who were playing away, were fouled outside the penalty area in the 38th minute of the first half. When Gomez was still theorizing with the referee, Ballack quickly sent a free kick, Hu Zhijun quickly inserted into the penalty area, but unfortunately the one-handed ball was blocked by Chilavert's right arm, but fortunately, Trezeguet at the back point was agitated and picked up a missed goal to score. At halftime, his teammates joked that Hu Zhijun missed the opportunity to score one-on-one heads-up Chilavert, and Lao Hu said seriously: "You don't know, I felt a moment of freeze at that moment, and when I came over in a trance, I had missed the best time to shoot." At that time, the boy was thinking, could it be that Lao Qi had some legendary time-stopping stopwatch in his hand? After all, in 94, Sarsfield went to Tokyo, Japan, and played the Toyota Cup with AC Milan, and won the championship with a 2-0 victory over Milan without being favored. Oops, it must be like this, the teenager thought of bad taste, but I don't know if Lao Qi used this time to pause the stopwatch to do something else.
Well, it's a long way to go again. Just mentioned that Sarsfield's style of play is simple and efficient, but how concise is it? The Helios team, who had just stolen chickens, were tasting the bitter fruit of their own making. In order to equalise before half-time, Sarsfield changed from a back five to a back four, with 1.93m centre-back Mauricio. Pellegrino mentioned the position of the center forward, using Chilavert's accurate long pass backfield to directly locate Mauricio, people are clearly playing with you like this, but you can't help it, Mauricio's first point of control is very good, next to the technical speed striker Assad, nicknamed "Buffalo", is waiting for an opportunity, it is the Toyota Cup against Milan scored twice Assad.
With less than 10 minutes left, Sarsfield's three attacks were all blatantly sending the ball above your head like this, and Mauricio won three aerial duels, even against Ballack, who is 1.88m tall. People have been playing together for so long, how to kick this ball, it is not random, there are routines. On these three attacks, Sarsfield kicked a beautiful long-range shot, grazed the post and slid past the goal, and once after the ball came down, the front three cooperated, the Guangzhou team's attention was on Mauricio and Assad, the ball broke through the right side of the defense with three passes and two feet, if it wasn't for Huang Hongtao's timely attack, Sarsfield would have equalized.
At halftime, in addition to Chilavert, the most discussed thing was the opponent's Mauricio who pulled up to the front. Pelagrino, who only played three games for the Argentine national team, was not at the peak of his career in 1996, so he was a nobody. But the teenager knows that the brother only began to make a name for himself after being loaned to the star-studded La Liga Barcelona in the 98-99 season. After a season at Barcelona, Mauricio briefly returned to Sarsfield, and then attracted the attention of Valencia with his performance in Barcelona, from the beginning of the 99 season to the 03-04 season, Mauricio was Valencia's main central defender, and made great contributions to the strongest La Liga Bat Army before the new century, Valencia's luxury midfielders Abelda, Baraja, Aimar, Vicente, and Angulo can rest assured that they can show their offensive talents. Mauricio at the back is their anchor. And he has scored two goals in 62 Champions League games, so you can imagine that people's high-altitude balls are really hard work.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, Guangzhou Sun God made some adjustments in the backfield, Ballack's task at this stage was changed to fully interfere with Mauricio's scramble for the first point, Gattuso's task is very simple, is to stare at the buffalo Assad, who is often the first contact point, and not let the opponent start at the first time, even if the defense is half successful, as for Posse and Bacides on both sides, the two speed-type in-cut pseudo-wingers, both lack the ability to organize the attack, and the relative threat of taking the ball at the first time is smaller, Moreover, Li Hongjun and Xie Feng are also experienced veterans. In addition, Peng Weijun and Trezeguet were also asked to retreat deeper, ready to counterattack in advance, Hu Zhijun, a speed-oriented striker, was placed in the front court at any time ready to sneak attack the opponent, anyway, the current leader is the Guangzhou team, do a good job of defense, even if both sides do not score in the end, this game is still 3 points to hand.
Some fans will ask, are you not exactly the same as the Chinese men's football team's stubborn defense, completely giving up the midfield to the opponent. In fact, it is different, you may think that the opponent is a long pass to find a center, but when the opponent can successfully play this simple and efficient tactic every time, you can't help but pay attention to it. Because there is no competition for control of the midfield, the ball is directly over the midfield to near your penalty area, so if there is no suitable adjustment to target the defense, the opponent is in front of a technical speed striker, and people only need one or two chances to suffice. The defense is done well, there are Peng Weijun and Trezeguet two points in the midfield, which is enough to control the midfield at the first time, and so on the side Xie Feng and Li Hongjun stepped forward, as well as the fast follow-up of Ballack and Gattuso, in order to play the counterattack well, especially as the leading side, the efficiency of the counterattack is the first, not for the sake of a good look, directly a straight plug thrown to Hu Zhijun, to fight the speed, that has no effect, at this time the Guangzhou team needs to advance the counterattack layer by layer, once or twice, As a result, it slowly translates into control of the midfield, regaining the rhythm of the game, and the ball is basically stable. To put it bluntly, you have to guard against other people's three-board axes before you are eligible to continue betting at the table, and such an obvious mention is very well targeted, just take your time.
The subsequent game process is also the same as the teenager expected, after many attempts to no avail, the opponent's frontcourt players are becoming more and more impatient, Sarsfield is fortunate that they do not need to invest too many troops in the front court of this style of play, so the overall defensive impact of the backfield is not very large, several Suns counterattacks, to the front court is at most 4 to 4, 4 to 5, rarely able to form a numerical advantage. The only chance was that Li Hongjun on the left side of the counterattack cut inward to the middle, and in the process of lateral movement, he gave a straight plug to the gap between the opponent's right central defender and fullback, Hu Zhijun inserted it diagonally, adjusted a step and prepared to hit the goal, the opponent's central defender chased back, and his thigh hid hit Hu Zhijun, and Lao Hu's body lost balance before shooting, resulting in the ball not hitting the power and was easily confiscated by Chilavert.
After 37 minutes of the second half, Sarsfield began to shrink the defensive line, obviously putting the hope of the game in the next game, the first thing to do in this game is not to concede goals, otherwise the Guangzhou team scored two away goals, and it will be difficult to turn the tables in the next game away from Colombia.
When the whistle blew, the Suns walked away with three points and an away goal to get one step closer to reaching the last four of the Cup.